Christopher Guest Quotes

Mean doesn't last. Mean is over fast. Maybe this is the essence of everything, which is, to me, if there is no emotional center for what I'm doing, I have no interest in it at all.

Christopher Guest

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  Cameron Diaz
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• Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

  

  Dan Webster
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• We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
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• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

  

  Natalie du Toit
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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
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  • Changing

• I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Real
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• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
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• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
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• A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Control
  • Smart
  • Information

• Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.

  

  Zendaya
  • Care
  • Cold
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• The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

  

  Edna O'Brien
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• I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
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• I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.

  

  Claudia Black
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• I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

  

  Ziggy Marley
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• Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Trump
  • Ignore

• Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.

  

  Marco Brambilla
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Technology

• I did psychology at university, but I wouldn't say that my music is too influenced by it. The way I make music is a little more to do with an emotional connection. When I compose the melodies for my tracks, it always comes from the heart.

  

  Lodewijk Fluttert
  • Music
  • Heart
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• Mean doesn't last. Mean is over fast. Maybe this is the essence of everything, which is, to me, if there is no emotional center for what I'm doing, I have no interest in it at all.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Emotional